RUMANIA: Revolution?

Russia's news blackout of Rumania was pierced again last week by rifle
flashes and the suggestion of muffled cries, scudding feet and bodies thudding
in the dark. From Bern, Switzerland, New York Timesnum Daniel T. Brigham
reported somewhat luridly that in Bucharest Communists had attacked the
Royal Palace, other State buildings. Communist outbreaks were said to have
taken place also in Brasov, Craiova and Caracal. The Red Army took no part
in the fighting.

The revolt was said to have been organized by Anna Pauker, formerly a
leftwing trade-union organizer in the U.S., where her husband,...